From bish at indiana.edu Tue Feb 3 10:53:16 2015
From: bish at indiana.edu (David L. Bish)
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 10:53:16 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] Zeolites at EuroClay Edinburgh2015 & the Isle of Mull
Message-ID: <54D0EEEC.4040803@indiana.edu>
Apologies for cross posting....
Dear colleagues,
As you have know, registration for the Euroclay 2015 conference is now
open, and early registration closes on March 1, 2015. The International
Natural Zeolite Association (INZA) is a co-sponsor of the meeting, and
one of the scientific sessions is dedicated to natural zeolites and
their applications. The session organizers invite you to submit
abstracts for this session
(http://www.euroclay2015.org/sessions/natural-zeolites-%E2%80%93-environmental-biomedical-and-industrial-applications);
the abstract submission deadline is March 31, 2015.
We would also like to announce that the Applied Mineralogy Group
(Mineralogical Society) and INZA will provide limited competitive
support for student presenters in the zeolite session at the
Euroclay-INZA meeting. Further information may be obtained from
info at minersoc.org.
In addition to the scientific session dedicated to natural zeolites,
INZA has assisted in organization of a week-long pre-meeting field trip
to visit the historic and famous natural zeolite localities of Strontian
and the Isle of Mull, Scotland. In addition to hosting a variety of
natural zeolites, these areas abound in natural beauty and cultural
significance. More information can be found at:
http://www.euroclay2015.org/zeolite This trip will be a special
opportunity to visit areas of great mineralogical and geological
importance (even for those not interested in natural zeolites).
All field trip and conference registration queries should be addressed
to info at minersoc.org.
I hope to see you all in Edinburgh (and on the field trip) this summer.
Dave Bish
--
David L. Bish
Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
1001 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-2039
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From elvira.mit at ufl.edu Thu Feb 5 12:38:50 2015
From: elvira.mit at ufl.edu (Mitiukova,Elvira Nurullovna)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 17:38:50 +0000
Subject: [Clay-talk] EDS of polymer-clay composite
Message-ID: <10CD2D02-5342-4342-8F06-E541CFD3D4BA@ufl.edu>
Dear members of Clay-Talk list,
I have a question about EDS analysis of polymer-nanoclay composite films. I am working on quantification of degree of dispersion of nanoclay in polymer extrusion films (x wt.% organomodified montmorillonite, polymer matrix is LDPE). Is EDS mapping on SEM is a suitable technique to identify particle size distribution of clay in this matrix? On my EDS maps, Si-signal systematically does not match bright spots that I assume correspond to clay aggregates. I would highly appreciate any comments/suggestions to solve this issue with eds or an alternative technique to calculate the dispersion.
This is links with my pictures:
1. EDS of pure clay http://postimg.org/image/nwnysl3o3/
2. quantification of this map http://postimg.org/image/vn7nho2iv/
3. EDS of pure PE film http://postimg.org/image/g6h6ng1cj/
4. EDS of composite sample #1 http://postimg.org/image/axm5pkixf/
5. EDS of composite sample #2 http://postimg.org/image/4mljmw72r/
Thank you very much in advance!
Best regards,
MSE department UF
PhD student Elvira Mitiukova
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From bish at indiana.edu Thu Feb 5 15:56:56 2015
From: bish at indiana.edu (David L. Bish)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:56:56 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] Professor Haydn H. Murray
Message-ID: <54D3D918.7030005@indiana.edu>
Dear colleages,
It is with great sadness that I let you all know that Prof. Haydn H.
Murray passed away peacefully yesterday morning in Bloomington, Indiana.
Prof. Murray first came to the Department of Geological Sciences at
Indiana University in 1951 and had a lifetime association with the
Department. He still came to work most days until a couple of years ago.
Many of you are familiar with Haydn's varied scientific contributions to
applied clay science, and he was one of the few members of our science
elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. In addition, he
made tremendous contributions to many aspects of Indiana University and
was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2004. Prof. Murray mentored an
incredible group of graduate students including 68 M.S. and Ph.D.
students, and he served on an additional 60 graduate committees. He was
also instrumental in establishing the Grassmann Fellowship for clay
mineralogy graduate students and the Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay
Mineralogy in the Department of Geological Sciences at Indiana
University. I know his presence will be missed in the Indiana University
community and in the greater international mineralogical community.
There will be no public service now but one will likely take place at
Indiana University at an appropriate time. If you were close to Haydn
or the family, I am sure Juanita, Haydn's wife of more than 70 years,
would be happy to hear from you. Her address is:
901 S. Fieldcrest Ct.
Bloomington, IN 47401
Sadly,
David Bish
--
David L. Bish
Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy
Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
1001 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-2039
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From jewalker at vassar.edu Thu Feb 5 16:21:21 2015
From: jewalker at vassar.edu (Jeff Walker)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:21:21 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] "The Many Faces of Chlorite" at EUROCLAY
Message-ID: <1C27F147-A4E5-47FF-ACDE-88E529C9E651@vassar.edu>
If you are working with chlorite or any of its mixed-layered relatives, we invite you to submit an abstract to our chlorite symposium at the EUROCLAY conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 5-10, 2015.
EUROCLAY is the quadrennial meeting of the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA), and is being held jointly with the annual meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) and in association with the International Natural Zeolite Association (INZA) and the Geological Society.
Please feel free to send this announcement to all others who might be interested.
Thank you.
Jeff Walker
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THE MANY FACES OF CHLORITE
This session focuses on the many geological occurrences of chlorite: from soils to detrital sediments, to sedimentary and diagenetic systems, to hydrothermal alterations and to low- and medium-grade metamorphic rocks, chlorite is everywhere. It forms as pure grains, or as interlayers with phyllosilicates such as smectite, serpentine, and vermiculite. The aim of this session is to bring together those with an interest in chlorite in any of its many forms, to present data from a wide variety of different analytical techniques, and to promote awareness of the complexity of chlorite and above all the potential for it to provide new and useful information on many geologic processes from the surface of the earth to deep in the crust.
Convenors:
Jeff Walker, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Daniel Beaufort, Universit? de Poitiers, France
Atsuyuki Inoue, Chiba University, Japan
Themes: Energy, Environment and Health, Materials
Symposium webpage: http://www.euroclay2015.org/sessions/many-faces-chlorite
Main conference webpage: http://www.euroclay2015.org/
Abstract deadline: March 1, 2015; instructions are here: http://www.euroclay2015.org/RegisterSubmit
Early conference registration deadline: March 1, 2015
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From jock.churchman at adelaide.edu.au Sat Feb 7 23:01:15 2015
From: jock.churchman at adelaide.edu.au (Gordon Churchman)
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 14:31:15 +1030
Subject: [Clay-talk] Invitation to participate in a Symposium on Halloysite
Message-ID: <000e01d04353$e48655e0$ad9301a0$@churchman@adelaide.edu.au>
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to participate, whether by submitting a
paper or through attendance, to possibly the first ever international
symposium on the clay mineral halloysite. As you will know, halloysite has
long fascinated clay mineralogists and many questions remain about its
peculiar properties and even about its mode of formation. At the same time,
its increasing recognition as a very promising nanomaterial since only about
2006 has greatly broadened its interest from geologists, mineralogists and
ceramicists into such fields as mechanical engineering and medicine, among
many others. For example, halloysite, as HNTs (halloysite nanotubes) is
currently being studied for the targeting and delivery of drugs to cancer
cells. This last aspect is just one among several that will be covered by
the symposium, to be held as a session at:
EUROCLAY 2015
Euroclay 2015 is organized by the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA)
jointly with the annual meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) and in
association with the International Natural Zeolite Association (INZA) and
the Geological Society.
Location: Edinburgh, UK, 5th-10th July 2015.
Web site: http://www.euroclay2015.org/
Session:
Halloysite: a unique, diverse and widely useful natural nanomaterial
http://www.euroclay2015.org/sessions/halloysite-unique-diverse-and-widely-us
eful-natural-nanomaterial
Halloysite is a clay mineral whose time has arrived. Until 2006, few papers
were published on this mineral. Its main use was as a raw material for
ceramics, in place of kaolinite. The approximately 1000 papers published
since then reflect its recognition as a nanomaterial, especially in
nanotubes. These have proved widely useful, including as reinforcing fillers
in plastics, as carriers for the controlled internal release of medicines -
and of pesticides, and also for immobilizing catalysts. Nonetheless, it
remains "a very strange mineral" as was once written. This symposium will
discuss its proliferating uses and applications, its mineralogy and
occurrence, to bring together scientists involved with all aspects of
halloysite.
Convenors:
Jock Churchman University of
Adelaide, Australia
Pooria Pasbakhsh Monash University,
Malaysia
Pooria and I hope you can make it to Edinburgh in July for this special
symposium. Your registration for Euroclay is invited now.
All going well, it is our intention that papers from this symposium will be
eligible for inclusion in a special thematic issue of the Journal Clay
Minerals.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to others.
Sincerely,
Jock Churchman
Dr G. Jock Churchman
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Fellow, AIPEA (International Association for the Study of Clays)
Fellow, New Zealand Society of Soil Science
Emeritus Editor, Applied Clay Science
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine,
The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005
Ph: +61 8 8313 7232
Mob: +61(0)434 928 626
Fax: +61 8 8303 6511
e-mail:
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From bish at indiana.edu Tue Feb 10 15:11:52 2015
From: bish at indiana.edu (David L. Bish)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:11:52 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] Professor Haydn H. Murray
Message-ID: <54DA6608.90901@indiana.edu>
Dear colleages,
A memorial service will be held for Professor Murray at 2 PM on
Saturday, February 21 in the Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union.
Regards,
Dave Bish
--
David L. Bish
Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy
Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
1001 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-2039
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From bish at indiana.edu Tue Feb 10 15:19:52 2015
From: bish at indiana.edu (David L. Bish)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:19:52 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] Professor Haydn H. Murray memorial
Message-ID: <54DA67E8.6000903@indiana.edu>
Dear colleagues,
I've had a couple of questions already about the best airport to use to
come to Bloomington. Indianapolis is the closest and is about one hour
from campus. There is a shuttle service also that goes directly to the
Union, and the Biddle Hotel is in the Union (there are many other hotels
within walking distance). The Indiana Memorial Union is at 900 E. 7th
St., Bloomington, IN 47405.
Regards,
Dave Bish
--
David L. Bish
Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy
Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
1001 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-2039
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From DMcCarty at chevron.com Tue Feb 10 17:57:57 2015
From: DMcCarty at chevron.com (McCarty, Douglas K)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:57:57 +0000
Subject: [Clay-talk] Structural characterization of lamellar compounds
Message-ID: <14218C561E5E2740A762A9E5B5119C753E57EC81@hou150w8xmbx05.hou150.chevrontexaco.net>
Session on Structural characterization of lamellar compounds at the Euroclay conference, 5th - 10th July 2015.
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to a session entitled "Structural characterization of lamellar compounds" at the upcoming Euroclay conference in Edinburgh (5th - 10th July 2015). This session is devoted to the structural characterization of phyllosilicates, layered oxides, layer double hydroxides, and layered compounds in general.
The Early Registration deadline for the conference is the 1st March 2015 and the deadline for abstract submission is the 31st March 2015. More information can be found at the conference website : http://www.euroclay2015.org/
Session description:
Over the last decade or so, structural characterization of layered compounds has benefited from the intrinsic evolution of the commonly used techniques (TEM, XAS, XRD, NMR etc), and especially from improvements in quantitative methods of data analysis. In particular, the collation of experimental and computational results allowed reciprocal improvements of both approaches. Significant progress has come also from the combination of experimental approaches allowing for a thorough characterization of complex and/or very defective lamellar structures, including natural materials and mixed-layered materials. This session will be devoted to the recent advances of individual techniques, and to new possibilities offered by their combination. New structural interpretations, dynamical properties, and insights into the formation and evolution of such materials in natural environments are also relevant. Materials of interest include, but are not limited to, phyllosilicates, layered oxides, layer double hydroxides, and layered compounds in general.
Convenors:
Douglas McCarty Chevron ETC, Houston, USA
Eric Ferrage Universit? de Poitiers, France
Vanessa Prevot Universit? Blaise Pascal, France
Vicente Rives Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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From jewalker at vassar.edu Wed Feb 18 15:55:35 2015
From: jewalker at vassar.edu (Jeff Walker)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:55:35 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] Deadline approaching for Chlorite Symposium at EUROCLAY
2015
Message-ID: <279273C3-0330-458E-B145-43C4ED00EDEE@vassar.edu>
Apologies for cross postings.
NOTICE: the deadline for sumitting abstracts to EUROCLAY (and to our session "The Many Faces of Chlorite) is March 1, 2015. Please join us in Scotland this summer! The pertinent information is reprinted below.
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If you are working with chlorite or any of its mixed-layered relatives, we invite you to submit an abstract to our symposium "The Many Faces of Chlorite" (see below) at the EUROCLAY conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 5-10, 2015.
EUROCLAY is the quadrennial meeting of the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA), and is being held jointly with the annual meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) and in association with the International Natural Zeolite Association (INZA) and the Geological Society.
Please feel free to send this announcement to all others who might be interested.
Thank you.
Jeff Walker
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THE MANY FACES OF CHLORITE
This session focuses on the many geological occurrences of chlorite: from soils to detrital sediments, to sedimentary and diagenetic systems, to hydrothermal alterations and to low- and medium-grade metamorphic rocks, chlorite is everywhere. It forms as pure grains, or as interlayers with phyllosilicates such as smectite, serpentine, and vermiculite. The aim of this session is to bring together those with an interest in chlorite in any of its many forms, to present data from a wide variety of different analytical techniques, and to promote awareness of the complexity of chlorite and above all the potential for it to provide new and useful information on many geologic processes from the surface of the earth to deep in the crust.
Keynote address by Dr. Olivier Vidal, Insitut des Sciences de la Terre, CNRS, Grenoble, France:
?What do chlorite and other phyllosilicates tell us about their conditions of formation??
Convenors:
Jeff Walker, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Daniel Beaufort, Universit? de Poitiers, France
Atsuyuki Inoue, Chiba University, Japan
Themes: Energy, Environment and Health, Materials
Symposium webpage: http://www.euroclay2015.org/sessions/many-faces-chlorite
Main conference webpage: http://www.euroclay2015.org/
Abstract deadline: March 1, 2015; instructions are here: http://www.euroclay2015.org/RegisterSubmit
Early conference registration deadline: March 1, 2015
From jewalker at vassar.edu Fri Feb 20 10:23:36 2015
From: jewalker at vassar.edu (Jeff Walker)
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:23:36 -0500
Subject: [Clay-talk] corrected abstract deadline - Chlorite Symposium at
EUROCLAY
Message-ID: <93466148-9025-4D7C-B1B9-022D80992C6A@vassar.edu>
Apologies for cross postings, and for filling your inbox, but it was pointed out to me that I made a serious mistake yesterday in the abstract deadline for the EUROCLAY meeting.
The early conference regsistration deadline is March 1, 2015 but the correct abstract deadline is March 31, 2015.
A corrected announcement is printed below.
Sorry for the confusion. Mea culpa. Jeff
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If you are working with chlorite or any of its mixed-layered relatives, we invite you to submit an abstract to our symposium "The Many Faces of Chlorite" (see below) at the EUROCLAY conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 5-10, 2015.
EUROCLAY is the quadrennial meeting of the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA), and is being held jointly with the annual meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) and in association with the International Natural Zeolite Association (INZA) and the Geological Society.
Please feel free to send this announcement to all others who might be interested.
Thank you.
Jeff Walker
********************************************************************
THE MANY FACES OF CHLORITE
This session focuses on the many geological occurrences of chlorite: from soils to detrital sediments, to sedimentary and diagenetic systems, to hydrothermal alterations and to low- and medium-grade metamorphic rocks, chlorite is everywhere. It forms as pure grains, or as interlayers with phyllosilicates such as smectite, serpentine, and vermiculite. The aim of this session is to bring together those with an interest in chlorite in any of its many forms, to present data from a wide variety of different analytical techniques, and to promote awareness of the complexity of chlorite and above all the potential for it to provide new and useful information on many geologic processes from the surface of the earth to deep in the crust.
Keynote address by Dr. Olivier Vidal, Insitut des Sciences de la Terre, CNRS, Grenoble, France:
?What do chlorite and other phyllosilicates tell us about their conditions of formation??
Convenors:
Jeff Walker, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Daniel Beaufort, Universit? de Poitiers, France
Atsuyuki Inoue, Chiba University, Japan
Themes: Energy, Environment and Health, Materials
Symposium webpage: http://www.euroclay2015.org/sessions/many-faces-chlorite
Main conference webpage: http://www.euroclay2015.org/
Abstract deadline: March 31, 2015; instructions are here: http://www.euroclay2015.org/RegisterSubmit
Early conference registration deadline: March 1, 2015
From michael.ploetze at igt.baug.ethz.ch Thu Feb 26 06:03:19 2015
From: michael.ploetze at igt.baug.ethz.ch (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pl=F6tze__Lothar_Michael?=)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:03:19 +0000
Subject: [Clay-talk] Euroclay 2015: Session QPA and Reynolds Cup School
Message-ID: <87547EBEF3B7F5419265AAB06F7DC1022FAA8B15@MBX110.d.ethz.ch>
Apologies for multiple postings. Just a reminder, the deadline for Early Registration is on 1st March 2015.
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of my co-conveners (Reinhard Kleeberg, Mark Raven and Helen Pendlowski) I am in a very pleasant position to announce the session dedicated to quantitative analysis to clay bearing materials at the forthcoming Euroclay2015/CMS42 conference, July 5-10 2015 in Edinburgh.
"Developments and applications of quantitative analysis to clay bearing materials; incorporating 'The Reynolds Cup School'."
Michael Ploetze, Reinhard Kleeberg, Mark Raven & Helen Pendlowski
The keynote will discuss the background, motivation and history of the Reynolds Cup followed by the general outcomes of the "Reynolds Cups of the CMS" summarized from all contests.
For the morning session, we invite contributions on QPA by any available method such as diffraction, spectroscopy, chemical analysis, or microscopy or combination of methods and approaches. Papers on methods and procedures as well as applications of QPA procedures, in soil, geological and materials science are encouraged.
The afternoon session incorporates 'The Reynolds Cup School' with a series of invited presentations and extended discussion outlining best practice in procedures and strategies to obtain QPA of 'state of the art' quality with today's most widely available tools. Extended "How-to-presentations" will cover the following topics: "sample preparation suitable for quantitative XRD", "techniques for identification and characterization of clay mineral species", "application of pattern summation techniques", "application of Rietveld techniques", "supporting information useful for quantification and methods for verification and checking consistency of results".
Participants will have the chance for extended discussions. The school will close with a Q&A session with beer and posters.
For abstract submission and more information about the session - please visit: http://www.euroclay2015.org/sessionsandsymposia).
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Abstract submission: 31st March 2015, Deadline for Early Registration: 1st March 2015
Best Regards
Michael Ploetze
ETH Zurich
IGT, ClayLab
Switzerland